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Sandy Sharkey (93.9 BOB FM) blogs about the role Ottawa is playing on the soap opera Days of Our Lives : Here’s this week’s ‘Days of Our Lives’ Ottawa story-line, and I am not embellishing in any way: a woman by the name of Kayla was exposed to poison gas in a hospital, and the only doctor with the serum to save her life lives in Ottawa, BUT WAIT, there’s a huge blizzard in the lower provinces of Canada, so all commercial planes have been grounded, including all planes in Ottawa, which of course is located in the lower provinces of Canada. ...

Ottawa has yet another free daily newspaper. 24 Hours is published by Sun Media (the same folks who bring you the Ottawa Sun). It’s actually two new free daily newspapers, because there’s an English and French version. According to an article in today’s Sun, “About 40,000 copies of each newspaper will be in newspaper boxes this morning — yellow boxes, most in Gatineau, for the French paper, and orange for the English. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/rushhour11140601.gif) Ottawa yet another new newspaper. This time it’s an afternoon daily called RushHour , published by CanWest – the same company that publishes the Ottawa Citizen. The paper will be published at noon every weekday. It’s available as a free PDF download, or a print version at 120 locations in Ottawa. ...

Ottawa voters wanted change - or did they? We’ve got a new mayor, but every Ottawa councillor who ran for re-election was voted back onto council. Some quick election notes: * Over 50% voter turn-out. That is considered pretty damn good for a municipal election. ...

A quick round-up of election night coverage planned for local tv & radio: * ** [ CTV Ottawa ](http://ottawastart.com/tv.php) (Cable 7): ** Special election coverage program, 8:30pm to 9:00pm. Frequent updates throughout the evening. Full update at 11:30PM with Leigh Chapple. ...

A-Channel News reports : ** ** Production has been shut down at the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Smiths Falls, and the company isn’t saying when it will start up again. Reading a statement from head office in Hershey, Pennsylvania, company spokesman John Long says that during one of several quality checks yesterday “an externally-sourced ingredient that did not meet our standards” was detected. ...

Ottawa has a new weekly newspaper, called the City Journal . It’s billed as “Ottawa’s Urban Newsweekly”, and published by Transcontinental, the same company that puts out the Ottawa Business Journal . We haven’t seen the paper version yet, but we’ve been reading the articles online via the handy RSS feed. ...

We keep reading & hearing complaints from Ottawa residents about how they’re having trouble finding information about election candidates. Three suggestions: Visit OttawaStart’s Election Gu ide , for links to each candidate’s official web site. Check out CBC Ottawa’s Ottawa Votes 2006 ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/duffy.jpg) ** Ottawa Sun blogger Anne Marie McQueen tells how you can get your hands on a giant photograph of Mike Duffy (and a pumpkin, too!) Related: ** Ottawa Guide

Have you tuned in to Ottawa’s newest radio station? It’s called Ottawa InfoRadio , and it’s at 104.7 on the FM dial. Programming includes weather forecasts, construction reports, airport arrivals & departures, stock reports, gas prices , and more. ...